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B-419071 1 (2020-12-02)

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GAiOU.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE
441 G St. N.W.                                                Comptroller General
Washington, DC 20548                                          of the United States

                                           DOCUMENT  FOR PUBLIC RELEASE
                                         The decision issued on the date below was subject to
Decision                                 a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has
                                         been approved for public release.


Matter of:  Sevenson  Environmental Services, Inc.

File:       B-419071

Date:       December  2, 2020

Michael H. Payne, Esq., Robert G. Ruggieri, Esq., and Casey J. McKinnon, Esq.,
Cohen  Seglias Pallas Greenhall & Furman PC, for the protester.
Jonathan D. Shaffer, Esq., Armani Vadiee, Esq., and Daniel H. Ramish, Esq., Smith
Pachter McWhorter PLC, for HGL-APTIM JV, LLC, the intervenor.
Emma   E. Altheide, Esq., and Anna F. Kurtz, Esq., Department of the Army, for the
agency.
Glenn G. Wolcott, Esq., and Christina Sklarew, Esq., Office of the General Counsel,
GAO,  participated in the preparation of the decision.
DIGEST

1. Agency reasonably evaluated the protester's and awardee's proposals under the
most important evaluation factor, experience.

2. Agency reasonably considered the relative technical merits of the protester's and
awardee's proposals and concluded that the technical merits of the awardee's proposal
warranted its higher evaluated cost.
DECISION

Sevenson  Environmental Services, Inc., of Niagara Falls, New York, protests the award
of a contract by the Department of the Army, Corps of Engineers, to HGL-APTIM JV,
LLC, of Reston, Virginia,1 pursuant to request for proposals (RFP) No. W912DQ-19-R-
3009, to provide environmental remediation services at the Welsbach/General Gas
Mantle (GGM) site located in Camden and Gloucester City, New Jersey. Sevenson
challenges the agency's technical evaluation and best-value tradeoff determination.


1 HGL-APTIM  JV, is a joint venture formed between HydroGeoLogic, Inc. and Aptim
Federal Services, LLC pursuant to the Small Business Administration's (SBA) mentor-
protege program; the joint venture was approved by the SBA on May 29, 2019. See
Agency Report (AR), Tab 11, HGL-APTIM JV Technical Proposal at Al Tab 1-1 through
Al Tab 1-42.

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